Is anyone surprised that the $6 billion ethane cracker plant complex proposed by PTT Global Chemical for Belmont County, OH did not, as previously promised, announce a final investment decision (FID) in 2018? We sure weren’t.
Read More “Ohio Cracker Now has All Key Regulatory Permits – Still no FID”
We’ve said it before and will say it again: Maryland Republican Gov. Larry Hogan is a major disappointment. Somehow radical leftists have politically emasculated Hogan and now lead him around by the nose (see Maryland Gov. Hogan Pulls the Trigger, Commits Fracking Suicide).
Read More “Maryland Pulls a NY, Rejects Pipeline Under Potomac River”
You know you’ve hit a nerve when so-called reporters (propagandists) at a Philadelphia-area newspaper drop all pretense of being objective in their reporting and begin calling a pipeline project made-up names–like calling Mariner East 2 “Frankenpipe.” Talk about petulant and childish!
Read More “Too Funny! Angry “Reporters” Call Mariner East 2 “Frankenpipe””
If a single Republican (in name only) puts their name to a bill with 25 Democrats, that’s all it takes for fake news media to herald it as a “bipartisan” bill (or bills, in this case).
Read More “Philly Democrat & RINO Team Up to Intro 12 Anti-Pipeline Bills”
Last September the Ohio Supreme Court handed down a decision that requires oil and gas landmen working in Ohio to have a real estate license (see OH Supreme Court Rules Independent Landmen Need Real Estate License). The state legislature just overruled that decision.
Read More “New Law: Ohio Landmen DON’T Need a Real Estate License”
One year ago, in January 2018, Dominion Energy announced a deal to buy out and merge in South Carolina-based SCANA Corporation (see Dominion Buys SCANA, Mulls Atlantic Coast Pipe Expansion into SC). That merger, a year later, is now complete.
Read More “Dominion/SCANA Merger Complete, Creating New M-U Market”
In early December, the U.S. Senate confirmed Bernard McNamee in a razor close 50-49 vote to become the fifth member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission–the third Republican member (see U.S. Senate Confirms McNamee to FERC with 50-49 Vote).
Read More “We Still have a Problem at FERC – Potential Deadlock in 2019”
The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading: Four permits issued in Ohio’s Utica; PA Rep. Daryl Metcalfe named new Republican Chair of House Environmental Committee; Weirton-Steubenville corridor sees nation’s highest percentage of construction job growth; Gov. Charlie Baker signs law requiring greater engineering oversight of natural gas work; U.S. natural gas producers, facing bottlenecks, practically giving gas away; How fracking enriches education in Texas – the rest of the story; Sempra sheds non-utility U.S. natural gas storage facilities; Energy commodity prices fell significantly in the last quarter of 2018; Here’s what to expect from oil in 2019; Chesapeake Energy, fracking pioneer, bet on oil – then prices plunged; Annual natural gas storage ‘deficit’ will turn into ‘surplus’ by mid-January; With an eye on record flow from Russia, gas market braces for slump; Russian natural gas flows to Germany, Slovakia up 2% on year in 2018 at 132.5 Bcm; Warnings of LNG supply shortages after 2022 should be taken seriously.
Read More “Energy Stories of Interest: Thu, Jan 3, 2019”